Quotes About Artistry

In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

I thought I would make good songs. Then I made Black Heart' and it was praised a lot. I love doing it and it is my passion.

Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.

I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.